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Reserve Stewardship programs integrate science, monitoring and communities to protect, manage, and restore coastal habitats.

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The National Estuarine Research Reserve System protects more than 1.3 million acres in 28 reserves in 22 states and Puerto Rico.

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The Reserve System contributes to the scientific and gray literature pertaining to restoration and habitat mapping. Below are some examples of the work from the Reserves.

National Estuarine Research Reserve System

Measuring Tidal Wetland Response to Restoration Using Performance Benchmarks from Local Reference Sites
Michele Dionne and Christopher Peter with contributions from Kenneth Raposa, Robin Weber, John Fear, Scott Lerberg, Craig Cornu, Heidi Harris, and Nina Garfield

Padilla Bay

Both the 2000 and the 2004 mapping projects are available from the Padilla Bay Reserve Web site.
The 2004 project was written up in the May/June 2007 Coastal Services Magazine as an article titled Budget-Conscious Coastal Vegetation Mapping in Washington.
The Remote Sensing Applications Assessment Project (RESAAP), was a multi-disciplinary effort to evaluate the cost-effective application of remote sensing technology to specific Reserve System projects. Don Field presented the results as a paper at the Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation, Norfolk, Virginia 2005. Field, D. W.; Malhotra, A.; Shull, S., NOAA/NERRS Remote Sensing Applications Assessment Project: Evaluating New Remote Sensing Technology for Mapping Benthic Habitats in the Padilla Bay Reserve.

South Slough

Physical and Functional Responses to Experimental Marsh Surface Elevation Manipulation in Coos Bay's South Slough
Craig E. Cornu and Steven Sadro

Elkhorn Slough

Historical Ecology of a Central California Estuary: 150 Years of Habitat Change
Eric Van Dyke and Kerstin Wasson
Ecological Signatures of Anthropogenically Altered Tidal Exchange in Estuarine Ecosystems
Amy F. Ritter & Kerstin Wasson & Steve I. Lonhart & Rikke K. Preisler & Andrea Woolfolk & Katie A. Griffith & Sarah Connors & Kimberly W. Heiman

Last Updated on: Tuesday, October 16, 2012


Reserve Stewardship ACE Basin, SC Apalachicola, FL Chesapeake Bay, MD Chesapeake Bay, VA Delaware Elkhorn Slough, CA Grand Bay, MS Great Bay, NH GTM, FL Hudson River, NY Jacques Cousteau, NJ Kachemak Bay, AK Mission-Aransas, TX Narragansett Bay, RI North Carolina North Inlet-Winyah, SC Old Woman Creek, OH Padilla Bay, WA Rookery Bay, FL San Francisco, CA Sapelo Island, GA South Slough, OR Tijuana River, CA Waquoit Bay, MA Weeks Bay, AL Wells, ME Ecological Changes Invasive Species Species of Concern Fire Management Water Quality Water Quality Monitoring Watershed Management Habitat Alteration Habitat Mapping Habitat Restoration Land Use & Habitat Change Restoration Restoration One-Pager Mapping Land acquisition Habitat Mapping and Change NERRS Mapping Plan Classification System Classification Scheme Implementation Protocols Restoration Science Land Acquisition Publications
	For more information contact Nina.Garfield@noaa.gov